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The
Most Transparent Administration
Ever, LOL
By Michelle Malkin
Jun 05, 2013
Sun,
sun, sun, here it comes.
Welcome to the Summer of Belated Epiphanies. Media lapdogs are finally,
finally
arriving at the conclusion that maybe this isn't the most transparent
administration in world history, after all.
On
Tuesday, the Associated Press
reported on the Obama administration's use of secret email accounts,
stonewalling on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and
attempted
shakedown of reporters seeking public information on just how
widespread the
disclosure evasion might be.
Take
note: It wasn't the AP that
originally uncovered Team Obama's penchant for email sock-puppetry.
Chris
Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute fellow and author of "The
Liberal
War on Transparency," first exposed former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson's
Internet alter ego, "Richard Windsor," last year. The free-market
environmental think tank filed suit against the government last fall
seeking
records on the secret, illegal "secondary" email accounts of
high-level EPA officials after the agency ignored multiple FOIA filings.
Seven
months after President Obama
was re-elected, along comes the AP to bolster Horner's assertion that
the
practice is not just isolated in one bureaucracy. Corruptocrat Health
and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (whose document-shredding,
obstructionist
history I chronicled last week) maintained at least one FOIA-subverting
address: KGS2@hhs.gov. So did Donald Berwick, former head of the
Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Gary Cohen, a top Obamacare
operative.
According
to the AP, a whopping 10
agencies have not yet turned over lists of email addresses, including
EPA, the
Pentagon, the departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation,
Treasury,
Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, Commerce,
and
Agriculture.
And
how's this for the audacity of
opacity: Can you believe the Labor Department initially asked the AP to
pay
more than $1 million for its email addresses?
In
a classic Captain Obvious
moment, the Associated Press points out that these hidden accounts
"drive
perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or
decisions." You don't say…
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